Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1906 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

THE WEEK AT A GLANCE.

The curtain-was rung up' ont he Anal jlc£ of nation-drama in which competition,—monopoly, capital and the law have loading roles, and of Ayhlcli the American people, and. Indeed, the civilized world, are the hu tensply interested spectators.-' The setting of the scene was the United States court room at St. Louis, wherein Attorney General Moody delivered the long-expected blow of the Federal Government, directed at the most powefftil - Industrial combination of oiir time, tire Standard OH Company of New Jersey, which, with its numerous subsidiary corporaßons. constitutes what is popularly known as the oil trust. He asks the court to dissolve this allpowerful trust because of numerous alleged violations of the law and directs his petition the intli"viilual officers and directors, naming JoTfn 1). Rockefeller and his brother, Ritgers, Archliold aiuL-tlie rest. While the present action Is distinctly civil, the Attorney General throws out a broad hint that at the proper time “action of a different nature" may be taken, presumably criminal —aclkgU—in. .which.shook! the _jjtm?rninent win, the officers and; directors of this same all-ppiyerful corporation would have to “do Hine" like, nttror oedhiarv <«flminals. This same industrial nggtegatfon and its. directors came in for another attack from the State of its birth, when the I’imilay grand jury returned indictments eovering the period since July 7. Pittsburg’s criminal element has brought on a virtual

7'rtdziruf'. terror. gSP th e defense. San Francisco’s Mayor and political boss have been indicted on charges of grafting. The President arrived safely at Colon, and made his inspection of the big ditch and his visit to the foreign city’ of Panama. The Russian Governnient's steps toward limiting the "franchise Is taken to mean the determination to control the next Domna. Bomb throwing continued and a state of war was declared in the Crimea. The French Chamber sustained the Government on the separation law, 416 to 163. . The celebrated Castellane divorce case came to an abrupt end with a decision favorable to the countess, who will retain charge of the children and resume fief American name as Mme. Gould. The movement for a 10 per cent advance In wages of laboring men continued, the Standard Oil. Company and ,xiuinX-rai.lroads taking part. The commission of the American Banking Association a groc-tt upon n currency reform program. The Pullman melon was passed around. Hili, the railroad -king, said the trouble with transportnjion’was not car shortage, but lack of tracks and canals. - The divorce congress at Philadelphia agreed oh seven justifications of divorce.